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This game changed videogames history... since it sold very poorly, Nintendo had a lot of spare Space Fever arcades, and so they asked Miyamoto to design a game (his first one) with that same hardware to recycle the cabinets... and so Donkey Kong was born.

Almost true. Yes, Donkey Kong was created to replace a poorly selling game. But that game wasn't Space Fever, but the game Radar Scope, from end of 1980. When large stock of Radar Scope did not sell in the USA, many of those machines were converted to Donkey Kong.

I have a space fever and they are quite common In England in the last year I have seen 7 up for sale on eBay , although none of them were in working condition .I do have a working example and its a cracking game If you like space invaders your like this .